Kids Still Playing Pokemon Like It's 1999

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 21, 2012 @06:30AM from the wait-it's-not-1999-yet? dept.

theodp writes "In 1999, TIME's cover warned readers to Beware of Pokemon ('For many kids it's now an addiction: cards, video games, toys, a new movie. Is it bad for them?'). But Pokemon wasn't as easily felled as Lehman or Bear Stearns. Thirteen years later, 16-year-old Manoj Sunny has his eye on a Pokemon world title, having earned the chance to travel to The Big Island with 35 fellow Americans for the 2012 Pokemon Video Game World Championships, which will be held Aug. 10-12. Sunny, who also captains his school's chess team, credits his success to a good memory, intuition, daily practice, the use of an online simulator, and a competitive attitude ('I hate losing. Once I lost, I needed to get better.')"

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Get off my lawn. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-21 06:34 · Score: 2, Funny

REAL men played with homoerotic action figures like He-Man.
1. Re:Get off my lawn. by Quiet_Desperation · 2012-07-21 07:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Things are a tad different now.
  *cough*ponies*cough*
'I hate losing" by ed1park · 2012-07-21 06:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Pokemon championships? You're already lost.
What, Pokemans Card/Video Games? by CanHasDIY · 2012-07-21 06:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Meh.

Wake me when we start genetically engineering the little bastards.

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Re:Aside from the games' rules themselves... by PopeRatzo · 2012-07-21 10:42 · Score: 4, Funny

I lost all interest in chess after 1997, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Princess Diana's death really hit you hard, didn't it?

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